Navigation Systems Overview

SSTest offers Website templates with different navigation systems. To make your template selection process easier, we classify Navigation Systems as follows:

• Drop-Down Menus
• Vertical Expandable Bars
• Classic Navigation Bars

Drop-Down Menu

Our Drop-Down Menu navigation system (see the example to the right) is designed using JAVA-script and HTML layers. It works in both Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator V 4.X and higher. Instead of linking directly to linked pages, all Top-level buttons in this system produce sub-button lists to choose from.

Advantages:

• Usability. Any page for a site is only a click away,
• Simplicity. Well known to everybody,
• Image. Makes your site look more professional while improving your company's image.

Disadvantages:

• Compatibility. Does not work in older versions of IE and Netscape,
• Requirements. Won't work when JAVA-script is not supported by a browser or is disabled,
• Weight. Each page becomes about 30Kb heavier.

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Vertical Expandable Bar

Our Vertical Expandable Bar (see the example to the left) allows a visitor to look through all navigation buttons without reloading a page. This navigation system is designed using JAVA-script and HTML layers' technology. It works in both Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator V 4.X and higher. The clicktop buttons slide apart to reveal a sub-button list.

Advantages:

• Usability. Any page on your site can be reached with only one page reloading,
• Image. Your site looks more professional, while improving your company's image.

Disadvantages:

• Compatibility. Does not work in old versions of IE and Netscape,
• Requirements. Won't work when Java script is not supported by a browser or is disabled,
• Weight. Each page becomes about 25Kb heavier.

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Classic Navigation Bar

Our Classic Navigation Bar has come a long way from the well-known column of buttons that Internet started with. From that time, the Classic Navigation Bar has evolved and now has a myriad of variations. Many of our Website templates are created with this type of navigation.

Classic Navigation Bar can be:

• 1-level or multi-level - we currently support 1- and 2-level bars,
• Graphic or Text. Our templates support both graphics and text. Some of them can use a mix of graphic and text.
• Bars can be left, right, or top-oriented, as well as and horizontally or vertically positioned.

• Compatibility. Works even in older versions of IE and Netscape,
• Weight. Allows to minimize a page weight.

• Usability. Requires a page reloading to view a list of subbutons.

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